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But the fact we have some roadmap of things we agreed on is a great milestone. Congrats!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The missing piece for this (besides making the REST api grow faster) is having a standard way to authenticate external systems so they can interact with Koha in a healthy way. Take Coral as an example: it needs to be able to add biblios, add purchase orders, etc. Or custom user management systems to inject patrons or update their statuses, etc.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We chose to implement the OAuth2 client credentials grant, which is a standard for this kind of use cases. Great work Julian! [2].<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The patches have gone through the QA process, and we are almost done. We still have 2 days before the feature freeze to adjust things. So if you have an opinion (positive, negative but constructive, etc), please comment here or better in the related bugs. It is now, or after the release!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>[1] <a href="https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/REST_api_RFCs">https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/REST_api_RFCs</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>[2] <u><span style='color:#3367D6'><a href="https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/showdependencygraph.cgi?id=20612">https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/showdependencygraph.cgi?id=20612</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575'>Tomás Cohen Arazi<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575'>Theke Solutions (<a href="http://theke.io/">https://theke.io</a>)<br></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:#757575'>✆</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575'> +54 9351 3513384<br>GPG: B2F3C15F<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>